This is great. Jared, I would love to see if there is some overlap in the talks you and I are interested in. Maybe we can sit in on a few together or at least grab lunch or something?

I live in Birmingham so I only have a room on Tuesday and Wednesday night, but would definitely be up for grabbing a a couple beers and/or dinner and hanging out with you and Jimmy and whoever else we can find.

Yes, I'll be there! It's my first Rails Conf as well, so I'm pretty excited. I'm 2/3rd thru my Bloc.o course, so I'm interested to see how much I can pick up from the talks. It's nice that they have a separate "Beginner" track laid out on the schedule.

I'm one of the volunteers, so I'll be working part of the conference. But we'll definitely have to meet up.

Thanks @Angel_Jose! It's pretty straightforward, RailsConf has a call for proposals that opens a few months before the conference and closed at the beginning of the month I think. I submitted a proposal and the organizers selected it for the beginner track. I had a lot of co-workers and friends read it first to make sure it made sense though.

I saw your talk on the schedule @KyFaSt - that is really awesome! Congratulations

Love that so many of you are going. I am planning to tentatively schedule my talk attendance plan this week. I will post that and see if there is any overlap. Regardless though - does anyone know their way around the conference area already? Is there a good place we could all plan a gathering?

As y'all know I don't have tickets, but live in Atlanta. On Tuesday night I am going to this offsite free event -- it's a a Rails-based gaming Hack Night aimed at RailsConf attendees! If you're free that night, you should come join! I can even give you a ride there.

I put this in the slack channel too. This is my tentative day 1 schedule. If there is any overlap in interests please let me know. And if I am clearly missing a can't miss talk or lab please enlighten me.